Description

Shrub, to lm; young shoots adpressed-sericeous. Leaves persistent, dimorphic, chartaceous; spring leaves oblong, 4.5-5 x 1.5-1.8cm, c.3 x as long as broad, apex mucronate, base cuneate, margin indistinctly crenulate-strigose, upper surface with brown strigose hairs, lower surface paler, with adpressed strigose hairs, more dense on midrib; summer leaves ovate to obovate, 20-26 x c. 10mm, otherwise as for spring leaves; petioles l-3mm, densely blackish-brown-strigose. Inflorescence 3-flowered; pedicels 5-6mm, densely brownish-sericeous. Calyx 2mm, strigose, lobes obsolete. Coro/Za funnel-campanulate, 32mm, rose-purple; tube 10 x 3-6mm, sparsely puberul-ous. Stamens 7, filaments puberulent below. Ovary densely strigose; style reddish-pilose at base. Capsule c.9 x 5mm, densely grey-strigose.

Distribution

China (Guangdong)

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References

Chamberlain, D.F. & Rae, S.J. (1990) A Revision of Rhododendron IV Subgenus Tsutsusi. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(2):105